SymbolicLinker - 2.0

SymbolicLinker 2.0 works perfectly under Snow Leopard Services. (Long-time users, make sure you read the Installation Instructions for Snow Leopard... it's no longer a contextual menu item.)

Thanks so much for keeping this software updated and relevant. 5 Stars all the way!

Great little app this, saves loads of time. Does what it should and does not interfere with anything.

It works well in Leopard but when you right click on the object you wish to link, it does not appear in the same menu position as in Tiger. You have to scroll down to " Other " and there it is at the bottom.

Many thanks Nick!

Anyone who has fiddled with the CLI to create symbolic links knows it isn't all that difficult, but it isn't one of life's greatest pleasures. Here we have the opportunity to avoid Terminal altogether, establish symbolic links to large directories of photographs stored on external drives, and the uses approach the endless. One of the better truly valuable CMs, especially for non-geeks.

This little gem is now a standard install for our Macs at work (G5s and some older G4s). It much easier for folks who are scared of the command line to use this than to launch Terminal. While there is not a lot of need for this tool, it proves itself immensely useful when you do need it (like building a quick symlink in a website to connect data from two or more separate volumes into a single website, which can't be done any other way that I know of.) Really useful tool and unequivocally five stars.

SymbolicLinker does just what it says it will do and does it at a nice price. (Who can beat free?) It fills in the gap in Apple's system that never should have appeared. Instead of just doing away with aliases and making them symlinks, Apple made both available (thus causing problems). This utility adds the convenience of creating an alias from the Finder to the creation of symlinks.

As a contextual menu item, SymbolicLinker can't be beat in the ease of use category. The documentation was complete, with screenshots of the menu item in action. The quality of the utility is excellent, doing just what it is supposed to do, with no problems. The price is perfect. I gave it five stars in all of these categories.

The one category on which I had to cut some stars is the features category. Maybe I got a little spoiled by using the Make Symlink contextual menu item first. But there are two features I'd like to see in SymbolicLinker. I'd like the ability to have the symlink created wherever you'd like on your hard drive, instead of having to move it after creation. And although far from necessary, it would be nice to have an installer (even a small AppleScript, as mentioned by another reviewer).

Overall, SymbolicLinker does all it says it will do, and does it efficiently at an unbeatable price...but I'd like to have a little more. Adding those features would easily make it worth a couple of bucks of shareware fees.